User blog comment:Llamao/Kotir Reborn/@comment-3474228-20120318172736/@comment-3474228-20120321023210

As JR backs up, the rest of the Abbeybeasts back up as well. However, unbeknownst to the small ferret, a young squirrel leaps down the stairs and runs out into the grounds, whispering loudly. "There's a ferret up in the dorms, an' 'e's got Gumbil as a hostage!"

Flynn, upon hearing the Dibbun's name, rushes down the stairs and curses. "How did a ferret get up there?" A nearby otter glances over.

"A ferret, y'say? P'raps the same beast that poisoned the food?" Flynn's eyes narrow as he runs towards the Abbey.

The ferret roughly hauls Gumbil along as he menacingly brandishes his blade at the Abbeybeasts. He begins descending the stairs, only to have his way blocked by Flynn and a group of armed otters. "Back away, fools, or I'll slit the li'l digger's throat!" Gumbil, a molebabe, moans and struggles in the ferret's tight grasp.

"Hoo urr, no, oi on'y be's a good likkle moler!"

The ferret lightly cuffs the mole, and Flynn's eyes begin to blaze. "Put the babe down, coward, and face me one-to-one!"

The ferret smiles. "Heh, I ain't that much of an idjit. Now move back an' let me pass! Then I'll give yer liddle terror back." The anger in Flynn's eyes subsides as he sees Gumbil's frightened face. With no other choice, he backs away and gestures the others to do so as well, glaring at the smug ferret as he passes. Once clear of all the otters, the ferret breaks into a run, bursting out into the Abbey grounds. "Quick mates, I got a liddle 'un, let's git outta here!"

Flynn, hearing the statement, charges onto the grounds in time to see the small east gate slam shut. Yelling out in rage at the broken oath made by the ferret to return the Dibbun, he leaps up to the battlements, an arrow already nocked to his bow. Without seeing where he is shooting, Flynn lets the arrow go, his ferocity having completely taken over his concern for the baby Gumbil's life, and whether the arrow will strike the babe.

However, as all miracles do work, the arrow finds its way into the small ferret's back, and the vermin falls into the ditch as he is propelled forwards by the arrow's momentum. The large ferret quickly hauls Gumbil up, and Flynn does not risk shooting another arrow, but instead quickly gathers a party to follow after the ferrets.